About Acronis

Acronis sets the standard for hybrid cloud data protection through its backup, disaster recovery, and secure file sync and share solutions. Powered by the Acronis AnyData Engine and set apart by its image technology, Acronis delivers easy, complete and affordable data protection of all files, applications and operating systems across any environment—virtual, physical, cloud and mobile. Founded in 2003, Acronis protects the data of over 5 million consumers and 500,000 businesses in over 145 countries. With more than 100 patents, Acronis products have been named best product of the year, and cover a range of features, including migration, cloning and replication. Today, Acronis solutions are available worldwide through a global network of service providers, distributors and cloud resellers.

5,000,000 customers

Over 5,000,000 individual customers and over 500,000 business customers in a broad range of industries have chosen Acronis to protect their business continuity

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Our corporate culture encourages making a positive impact on the lives of each employee through mutual trust and respect, personal achievement, and individual leadership. At Acronis, we have a dedicated group of highly-motivated team players whose balance of hard work and fun have made us one of the most successful software companies.

When it comes to industry leadership, few can match the global presence and impact of Acronis. Certainly, it’s a success we owe to our dedicated employees. That’s why we work equally as hard for you, to provide comprehensive and flexible benefits that most closely meet your needs.

Management

Board of Directors

Serguei Beloussov is the co-founder of Acronis, its Chairman of the Board since 2003, and its CEO since 2013.

Until 2011, he held the position of CEO at Parallels, a global leader in virtualization and automation software, where he still provides leadership as Executive Chairman. He is the co-founder and Executive Chairman of Acumatica and a Senior Partner at Runa Capital, the global technology-focused venture capital firm he co-founded with university colleagues in 2010.

Serguei sits on the Board of Directors of the Russian Quantum Center and the Governing Board of the Centre for Quantum Technologies in Singapore.

He holds a B.S. in Physics, an M.S. (Hons) in Physics and Electrical Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

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Ilya Zubarev

Ilya Zubarev

Ilya Zubarev has served Acronis as its Chairman of the Board of Directors since June 2007. He is a founder of Rolsen, Infra Telesystems, SWsoft, Solomon Software SEA and Acumatica -- all in partnership with Serguei Beloussov. Ilya received a B.S. in Physics in 1993 and an M.S. in Physics and Electrical Engineering in 1995 from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

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Ravi Jacob

Ravi Jacob

Ravi Jacob is a Corporate Vice President at Intel Corporation and has served as its Treasurer since 2005, managing Intel's cash and investments, capital markets activity, currency and other financial risks, credit and collections, retirement assets, and risk and insurance. Previously, Ravi was Vice President, Finance and Assistant Treasurer, M&A. For seven years he led a worldwide team of approximately 50 treasury professionals responsible for structuring and executing Intel Capital's acquisitions, divestitures and strategic investment transactions. From 1994 to 1998, he worked as Assistant Treasurer, Europe. In prior roles, he managed the company's retirement investments portfolio and overseas cash management activities. Ravi joined Intel in 1984. He holds an MBA from Graduate School of Management at UCLA.

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Rene Bonvanie

Rene Bonvanie

Rene Bonvanie joined the Acronis Board of Directors in February 2014, bringing over 25 years of product marketing, business development, and general management experience from roles at INGRES, Oracle, VERITAS, Business Objects, SAP, Salesforce.com, Serena Software, and Palo Alto Networks.

Rene currently holds the CMO position at Palo Alto Networks, and also sits on the Board of Directors of Mirantis, Mintigo, and Servoy.

Rene speaks four languages and has an Economics degree from Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.

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Jim Herman

Jim Herman

Prior to joining the Board of Directors at Acronis, Jim Herman was its Chief Revenue Officer, since 2015. Jim also led and built sales, business development, field marketing and services organizations for successful IT industry innovators. In his four-plus years as Senior Vice President at Parallels, Jim drove sales and consistently over-delivered on its worldwide revenue plan. Additional responsibilities at Parallels included building and managing the Professional Services and Business Development teams.

Previous to Parallels, he spent eleven years at Symantec/VERITAS, where he served in a number of leadership roles in enterprise sales and partner/channel development. Jim also made significant leadership contributions at technology pioneers NCR and Informix Software. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Evergreen State College.

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Alexander “Sasha” Galitsky

Alexander “Sasha” Galitsky

Alexander “Sasha” Galitsky is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Almaz Capital, a venture fund headquartered in Portola Valley, CA and backed by Cisco Systems, EBRD and IFC, the latter of which he co-founded in 2008. Alexander is a well-known innovator, entrepreneur and investor in the U.S., Europe and Russia. Sasha serves as a member of the Skolkovo Foundation Board and on the Skoltech Board of Trustees.

Prior to Almaz, Sasha made a series of successful private investments. His past and current investments include Parallels, Yandex (IPO), QIK (sold to Skype), Vyatta (sold to Brocade), Acumatica, Jelastic, NavMaps (sold to TeleAtlas), Acronis, SJLabs (sold to VocalTec), EverNote, GridGain, WikiMart, CarPrice, StarWind, PIQ, and Good Data, among others.

Sasha also founded and served as CEO for five successful high-tech companies: ELVIS+, TrustWorks Systems (sold to Hamsard), EzWIM (sold to TMT Ventures), ELVIS Telecom (sold to Telenor) and NPC ELVIS. He was an early leader Wi-Fi and VPN technologies, and a pioneer of the Russian internet industry in the 1990s. Earlier, he served as one of the top technical executives in the Soviet space industry, working on the MIR space station and the Soviet “Star Wars” response.

Sasha holds over 30 patents for inventions in parallel processing, Wi-Fi and VPN technologies. He received his PhD in Computer Science by joint authority of the Defense Research Institute and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and graduated from the Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology’s physical sciences department.

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Executive Management Team

Jan-Jaap Jager

Chief Revenue Officer

Jan-Jaap Jager

Chief Revenue Officer

As the Chief Revenue Officer at Acronis, Jan-Jaap Jager brings more than 14 years of experience in the IT industry. Previously, he was CEO of the Intergenia Group, one of the largest hosting companies in Europe. Jan-Jaap has extensive experience in developing and growing emerging markets. In 2006, he joined SWsoft, now known as Parallels, with the task of building a whole new region from scratch that contributed substantially to Parallels’ revenue. Prior to joining Parallels, Jan-Jaap was a pioneer within Microsoft Germany, where he led the development and execution of the Microsoft hosting strategy.

Jan-Jaap holds a BA in International Economics and Management from Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen, The Netherlands, as well as an advanced degree from the University of Würzburg in Würzburg, Germany.

As the CMO of Acronis, John Zanni leads global marketing and communications across segments and channels, managing brand, corporate, product and field marketing, as well as demand generation and influencer, analyst and media relations. He is also responsible for the strategy and growth of the Acronis channel and cloud business.

John previously served as CMO, Service Providers at Parallels, overseeing the company’s global service provider marketing function. Prior to joining Parallels, John was the General Manager of the Microsoft Service Provider SPLA business. In this role, he drove strategy for Microsoft’s hosting and cloud business and responsible for the SPLA P&L.

Prior to Microsoft, he spent 12 years running a small business. John holds a BS degree in Mathematical Physics from California State University, Northridge.

Stanislav Protassov co-founded Acronis in 2001 and currently leads its research and development teams.

As Co-Founder and Senior Vice President of Engineering and R&D at Parallels, he managed software engineering in a wide range of development environments including Windows, Novell Netware and UNIX. Previously, as Architect and Developer at Solomon Software, Stanislav received personal praise from Bill Gates for Solomon Software’s Cassandra product architecture. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He has authored over 100 patent applications, own 40 patents to date, and has won more than 50 awards for software development.

Igor Zolotaryev is the Global Vice President of Human Resources at Acronis, where he is responsible for supporting business strategies and objectives and managing the Human Resources organization across the globe.

Prior to Acronis, Igor spent 10 years as an HR leader at Honeywell Corporation, starting as Regional HR Leader for Russia and the CIS, and later taking on the position of the HR Director for Integrated Supply Chain for Home and Building Technologies in EMEA and Southeast Asia, covering more than 5,000 employees in manufacturing facilities and distribution centers. He holds a law degree from the University of Nizhny Novgorod and a degree in translation from Nizhny Novgorod Linguistic University.

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Mark Shmulevich

Chief Strategy Officer

Mark Shmulevich

Chief Strategy Officer

Mark Shmulevich joined Acronis in the second half of 2014 to lead its development of advanced technology and innovation. Mark’s primary focus is developing intellectual property strategy and creating business opportunities via cooperation with universities and R&D centers worldwide.

Prior to joining Acronis, Mark was Russia’s Deputy Minister of Communications and Mass Media from 2012 to 2014. Prior to that, he served as Head of Business Development at the Russian Space Systems corporation. He holds a PhD degree in computer science.

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Michael Inbar

Chief Financial Officer

Michael Inbar

Chief Financial Officer

Michael Inbar manages the Finance Department at Acronis and controls its accounting processes, including global revenue, payroll, cash management, FP&A activities and reporting. Prior to joining Acronis, Michael spent 11 years in public accounting with Ernst & Young in Israel and the U.S., serving clients in the technology, communications, entertainment and biotechnology industries for both public and privately held companies. Michael’s experience include technical accounting, FP&A, due diligence, global tax planning and strategic planning. He held prior finance leadership roles at Acceleron Pharma, GlassHouse and Aspect Software. Michael holds an MBA (Honors) from the College of Business Management, Israel, and a Certified Public Accounting license in the US.

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James Tucker Bradley

General Counsel

James Tucker Bradley

General Counsel

James Tucker Bradley is General Counsel of Acronis where he manages global legal affairs, including corporate governance, litigation strategy and management, financing and development, intellectual property, compliance and employment matters. He also manages the global contracts team that negotiates contracts for customers around the world.

Before joining Acronis, Mr. Tucker Bradley spent nearly 20 years as general counsel of software companies in the digital marketing and mobile industrial solutions spaces. He was also CFO at the industrial software company. Prior to that, Mr. Tucker Bradley was an associate at Foley, Hoag, where he used his considerable financial skills in four areas: real estate, banking, bankruptcy, and accounting malpractice defence. Before that, he was an associate at Wilmer Hale, where he worked in real estate development and finance. Mr. Tucker Bradley began his professional career working in audit and tax at BDO.

Mr. Tucker Bradley holds a J.D. from Boston University School of Law, where he was an editor of the Annual Review of Banking Law, and a B.S. in Accountancy with Highest Honors from Bentley University.

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Gaidar Magdanurov

Vice President and General Manager, Consumer and Small Business

Gaidar Magdanurov

Vice President and General Manager, Consumer and Small Business

Gaidar Magdanurov is responsible for global consumer and small business and leads the online and OEM teams at Acronis. Before assuming his current role, he supported the CEO and executed strategic projects as a Business Manager to the CEO.

Previously an investment director at venture capital fund Runa Capital, Gaidar was responsible for seed-stage investments, advising and educating entrepreneurs, supporting the business development of portfolio companies and maintaining relationships with startup incubators and accelerators.

Prior to Runa Capital, Gaidar served as Managing Director of the Microsoft Seed Fund and as Local Software Economy Initiative Lead at Microsoft in Russia.

He holds a Master’s Degree in Chemistry from the Higher Chemical College of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Ezequiel Steiner is an Advisor to the Board and Executive Management Team and until 2016 he was the General Manager for the Access Business Unit as well as Head of Business Development at Acronis. Prior to joining Acronis in June 2013, Steiner served as CEO, President, and Chairman of the Board at Acumatica, Inc. From 2004 to 2009, he served as Senior Vice President of Business and Corporate Development of SWsoft, today known as Parallels. Steiner led Parallels' business development efforts and was responsible for its strategic alliances, technology partnerships, and acquisitions.

Previously, Ezequiel spent several years in sales management and business development positions at IBM, where he was awarded the IBM Role Model Award and was instrumental in the successful displacement of IBM competitors from major accounts. His career also includes having served as a Consultant of General Electric and assignments with Xerox and Direct SA. He holds a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Buenos Aires and an MBA from Harvard Business School.